- •212000, Г. Могилев, пр. Мира, 43
- •I. Read/listen to some people describing their friends. Describe yourself, your family and your friends.
- •II. The quiz: What kind of person are you?
- •III. Look at the information in the table. Use it to complete the text with the positive or negative form of to like and to go.
- •I. Speak about your hobbies, ambitions and plans for future after reading these little stories:
- •II. Read how a radio interviewer is discussing developments in on-line music with Max who works in the music industry and Sam, a student. Answer the questions below:
- •II. Danny’s day.
- •III. Read what Luke says about a typical day in his life.
- •II. Isabel’s weekend.
- •III. John’s and Lola’s weekends.
- •Complete the sentences with John or Lola:
- •IV. A Busy Saturday.
- •1. Read/listen to four people talking about where they live and answer the questions below.
- •II. Read/listen to Serena’s description of her country house:
- •IV. Student’s Accommodation
- •V. Key vocabulary to help you speak about your home:
- •The cuisine in Belarus
- •II. Read/listen the story and correct the sentences given below:
- •III. Listen to how Marisa is ordering pizza:
- •IV. Read/listen to ordering food in a fast food restaurant and answer the question below:
- •Sam: Can I pay by credit card?
- •V. Laurence writes about diet in a magazine. Read the letters and Laurence answer to one of them. Which letter does it answer? Dear Laurence,
- •I. Read/listen to the dialogue between a buyer and a shop assistant:
- •I. Read/listen to the dialogue between a travel agent and a customer:
- •II. Read the text giving the things important for air travelers:
- •IV. Steve speaks about things that may be useful for those travelling in the usa:
- •II. Read/listen to the Dialogues. Learn underlined useful phrases. You can use them to discuss what businesses can do to protect the environment:
- •I. Read/listen to the following interview about Martina’s education:
- •II. Answer these questions about learning English in your country:
- •III. Jackie Snow is talking about her Student’s life in London:
- •II. My University.
- •III. Engineering Specialties of the Belarusian-Russian University.
- •V. Read/listen to the interview and answers the questions given below:
- •IV. Read/listen to part 2 of the interview:
- •V. Read/listen to part 3 of the interview:
- •VI. A) Answer these questions about yourself with complete sentences,
- •VII. Using your answers to the previous questions complete the gaps:
- •VIII. Ask the same questions (Task yi) to your partner and discuss your University course and your future Engineering career with him.
- •1. Read/listen to Ian Bronec, a Mechanical Engineer, speaking about his job.
- •II. Listen to Leon Peters, a Construction Worker, speaking about his job, and answer the questions below:
- •III. Listen to Phillipe Rugeri, a Mechatronics Engineer, speaking about his job, and answer the questions below:
- •V Read what Diana Mayo, an it Support Technician, writes about her job. Read her story and try to retell it briefly:
- •I. Listen to an interview for the Stage Technician job.
- •II. Read the advice: how to get that job!
- •III. Sam has a job interview with a large engineering company. Give him advice using should or shouldn’t and the notes below:
- •V. Imagine that you are being interviewed. Here are the questions the interviewer may ask. Try to answer them.
- •1.Study the cv. It is based on the European cv format. Write your own cv.
- •II. Read the talk about writing cVs. Say briefly, what makes a bad cv.
- •I. Read/listen to the Dialogues. Learn underlined useful phrases. You can use them to describe any other company:
- •I. Read the numbers and quantities with the speaker:
- •II. Write down the numbers and quantities in figures:
III. Listen to Phillipe Rugeri, a Mechatronics Engineer, speaking about his job, and answer the questions below:
My special area is electronic assistive technology, or EAT for short. I work for a company which makes equipment to help severely disabled people. I mean people who can't walk, people who have very limited movement - perhaps they can move only their head.
In this kind of work, you need knowledge of mechatronics. That's where mechanics, electronics, and software engineering meet. Take a page-turner, for example. It's a device which turns the pages of a book or magazine. The input can be a pneumatic switch - that's a switch worked by air pressure. You operate it by sucking or blowing down a tube. These signals are interpreted by a microprocessor which controls the mechanism which turns the pages. That mechanism uses electrical and mechanical devices. All three branches of engineering combine to make it work.
It's an exciting job. Each development in technology means new possibilities for disabled people. (Technology, Unit 10, Listening scripts)
Questions: 1. What is EAT? 2. Name three ways in which severely disabled people can operate equipment. 3. What are three branches of engineering which make up mechatronics? 4. What does a page-turner do? 5. How does a pneumatic switch work?
IV. Listen to Tod McArthur, a Telecommunications Technician, and note the following things: a) the number of years he has worked for his company; b) as many items of telecommunications equipment as you can; c) as many country names as you can;
d) the meaning of VoIP.
I'm a Telecommunications Technician. I work for a company which provides phone systems for business use, especially banks. I've been with the company for eight years. Before that, I was in the army for four years. I joined when I left school. I was in Signals. They trained me to set up and maintain mobile communications equipment - satellite dishes, antennas, VHF radios, that sort of thing. I enjoyed my time in the army -mostly because I traveled quite a lot. I've been to Norway, Kenya, and Belize.
I've seen quite a few changes in phone systems. We've replaced copper cables with fibre-optic networks. The most important one now is the change to VoIP. That's Voice over Internet Protocol. Basically, it's a system that allows voice signals to be sent via the Internet. You can make long distance calls cheaply.
In general, telecommunications equipment has become more complex, more powerful in the data it can handle and lighter. My job used to be 70% brain and 30% muscle. Now, it's 90% brain and 10% muscle!
Most of my work is indoors though. It's not just installing and testing equipment. I have to explain to clients how to use the new systems. Being able to explain quite complicated technology in simple terms is an important part of my work. That's one of the things I enjoy most.
Sometimes I have to work outdoors to bring a line into a building or fix a dish on the roof. It's great in summer but it's not much fun if it's pouring with rain! (Technology, Unit 13, Listening scripts)
Questions: 1. Where did he first learn about telecommunications? 2. Name a change he has experienced in telecommunications. 3. Why is his job now much more about brain than muscle? 4. What does he like most about his job? 5. What does he not like?